Kurbas: New Worlds

Compiled by

Anastasiia Haishenets, Anna Pohribna, Virlana Tkacz

Texts by

Virlana Tkacz, Yaryna Tsymbal, Tetiana Rudenko, Olesia Ostrovska-Liuta

Copyediting by

Dariia Puhach

Proofreading by

Dmytro Kozak

Translation by

Natalia Shevchenko, Olena Jennings, Nadia Sokolenko, Tanya Rodionova

Design and layout by

Ganna Solovei

Photos by

Maksym Bilousov, Waldemart Klyuzko, Evgeny Malolietka, Yevgen Nikiforov, Bohdan Poshyvailo, Andrew Tkach, Nikita Yurenev

Supervisor of printing

Anna Zatelepa

The publication contains materials collected during working on the Kurbas: New Worlds exhibition, which took place at the Mystetskyi Arsenal on October 17–December 2, 2018 and manifested the curatorial view of the creative work of Les Kurbas, a Ukrainian avant-garde theater director of the early twentieth century. Most museum objects in the exhibition are courtesy of the Museum of Theater, Music and Cinema of Ukraine.

Kurbas: New Worlds examines what Les Kurbas really did as a theatre director. It is presented in two sections. The first is devoted to Kurbas’s experimental work with his company — the Berezil Artistic Association — in Kyiv (1922–1926). The second features productions of the Berezil National Theatre in Kharkiv, which Kurbas headed from 1926 to 1933.

Public Enteptise “NACMC ‘Mystetskyi Arsenal’”. Kyiv, 2019

ISBN 978-966-97778-5-0
Published by Public Enterprise “NACMC ‘Mystetskyi Arsenal’”
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